Sample Sale To End All Sample Sales: 100% of the proceeds to AIDS charities

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7th on Sale is back.

Ralph Lauren, Marc Jacobs, Michael Kors, Kenneth Cole, Diane Von Furstenberg, Proenza Schouler, Oscar de la Renta and hundreds of other designers will be on sale, at 70% off, during three "public shopping days", Friday through Sunday Sunday Sunday!

It's at the 69th Regiment Armory (Lexington at 26th Street).

You gotta buy tickets in advance for a two or three-hour shopping spree. Tickets are $20. Click here for more info.

If you can't make the public sale, another 10,000 items will be sold on eBay at 10% off retail through December 6. Click here to link to the eBay auction

The Council of Fashion Designers of America and Vogue, which revived this sample sale to end all sample sales in 2005, say 100% of the proceeds will go to AIDS charities. They're trying to raise $4.2 million this year.